Divinity Quotes - Page 5

• Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

  John Donne

  Faith, Hands, Soul

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

  Pindar

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Way, All Things

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• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Women, Philosophical

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• The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Purpose, Life Is

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• Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

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• Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.

  Walker Evans

  Life, God, Photography

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• You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Enlightenment, Purpose, Realizing

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Islamic, Spirituality

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Men, Air, Sky

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• God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Supposing, Up And Down

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• Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Skills, Cities, Fields

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• In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Rocks, Opposites

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• To the soul that knows its own divinity, all else must gravitate

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Soul, Knows

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.91, Penguin

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• Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Issues, Grace

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• To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body.

  Amit Ray

  Cells, Needs, Body

  Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2012). “OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment”, p.27, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Shining, Singing

  'The Spectator' no. 465, 23 August 1712, 'Ode'

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• Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

  John Milton

  Earth, Mixtures, Breathe

  'Comus' (1637) l. 244

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• Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Compassion, Flavor, Emotion

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Wise, Rising, Resentment

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• Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Vision, Gold

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 678

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• The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

  Hosea Ballou

  Humility, Men, Bows

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• Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

  John Milton

  Letting Go, Tragedy, Lines

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.425

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• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Divine, Chaucer, Familiar

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.145, Broadview Press

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